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We have an entire capitalist society that champions those who gamble and win. Because the ones who gamble and win get ahead of those who are calm and steady. At least the top winners are the gamblers, there is a huge cabal of strong and steady behind them, but they don’t win the championships. And at the end of the day, the goal in sports is about winning the big game. So yeah, you got to gamble to win to some extent and he is going to be defensive about that. If you use it as a knock against him you are promoting results that aren’t championship winning. how one chooses to live their own life is a different story. But this is sports, it’s fantasyland. Go big or go home meanwhile we’ve got a GM for the Sabres who is listening to an owner who held on to losing tickets and got lucky. The shale he owned was deemed literally useless until those in Texas figured out a way to make something out of it. And he was in the right place at the right time holding onto slow and steady cards that should’ve lost out. And that’s what the owner knows and wants his favorite Sabres to be doing. Where he controls the strings. For football where his wife did the work football was left to football people to figure out. And they did. For the Sabres though, there isn’t some new technology that’s going to rise from the depths that will suddenly make them all stars. The closest you get is a philosophy change like moneyball did, and why some of you like stats so much, but you have to let a GM do his thing to let that idea come to be. That isn’t happening with Terry signing checks. If he can’t delegate the Sabres they’ll never go anywhere. They’re too conservative. Too insecure. No identity of confidence for others to latch onto. Turning Lindy into a POHO who can act entirely as a layer of separation I think is our best hope. Lindy needs to be signing the checks, not Terry tho

LOL... this is like we were told to meet at Tim Hortons... we are all sitting there waiting come to find out we are at the wrong one... waiting... waiting ... for something that isnt gonna come... Funny thing is they know we are waiting and they know where we are... and they know we are just gonna sit there for no reason... and they are laughing... I think this is hysterical to them... Hey Kev, look at those dorks waiting for us... lol.... wanna get out for a quick 9 ? Absolutely, TP, it is what we are best at it's never too early to begin preparing for playoff time next year! Fore!

https://edge.nhl.com/en/team/20242025-regular-BUF Over all team stats for the year vs. other teams Top speed below 50th percentile 22 mph plus bursts below 50th percentile 20-22 mph bursts 70th percentile 18-20 mph bursts 96th percentile Top speed is kind of a one off event so it does not mean a whole lot. The league average for 22 mph bursts is 80 times for the whole season we had 61. Thats not that big a deal. As this points out what we do is skate fast often. If you look through the individual stats the speed is in our forward group.

man it would be nice to get 1 top 6 guy in here to beef this up... I just remember the Vanek Roy Pominville 3rd line back when we had a pro team... they didnt need to carry the mail but they got significant minutes and made significant contributions without having to carry the team... that would be nice for guys like Kulich and Benson and maybe even Quinn if he can snap out of this... now no analytics when into this and I know you were making a point on them... but my mind wandered...

If KC didn't have Mahomes they wouldn't be multiple SB winners. The Bills are very fortunate to have Allen as their qb in this era. (As you indicated.) Both elite qbs have elevated their teams to the top tier of the league. And without a doubt as @That Aud Smell stated Allen will be a future HOFer.

If the scenario plays out with KA elevated to a ceremonial position with Karmonos elevated to the GM position, then I'll take that as a positive step. It's very likely that Ruff will remain as HC and have more say on the roster. After being the HC for a year, he should have a better grasp of the talent of his players and who they are as competitors/people. The bigger issue, regardless how the staffing shakes up, is what players are going to be added and what players are going to be subtracted from the roster? To state the obvious, the status quo on the roster is unacceptable. The signs do indicate that there will be some organizational changes. Maybe not as dramatic as many want, but at least a step in the right direction.

Adding Seth Jones to an already excellent team makes them look unstoppable

Canadians reject Trump supported Polievre in election. https://www.vox.com/politics/410854/canada-election-results-mark-carney-pierre-poilievre-donald-trump

So we hear something today? Atleast that they are about to meet. Give us Marty Wilford’s head on a platter at the very least😁

They're giving polygraph tests for loyalty to civil servants who don't toe the line. They very much want us to be Russia. They are putting it under the guise of leaks... but it's our government and we're entitled to know what they're doing. https://futurism.com/trump-polygraph-lie-detector-leak

This is only for the first quarter of 2024? What was it for the full season? Just curious.

I see ppl didn't like this. It's true though.

No one really believes PFF grades

True. However I watch enough NHL to know what I see more often than not by the Sabres is FUBAR. It’s why you never see me advocate for Kulich or Benson in the top six.

Cause he's still a young player who can make defensive gaffs and they are serious about winning. 3rd and 4th lines are where the young guys still learning should be. You're just not used to common sense real hockey teams 😉

Further showing that the spotlight is on the team that matters according to Terry. There's a continued trend. Sell the team. I did like the Bills draft overall though.

Questionable garment selection for sure. No judgement.

But then again, 10 minutes per game doesn’t scream that they are happy with him either. Forwards Boldy, Kaprizov and Joel EE all have twice + TOI as Rossi. He’s down there with Vincenzo Hinostroza. (Whom I will forever be grateful for flipping a puck to my 12 year old son wearing blue and gold at the Honda Center a few years back).

2 akward goals for Dallas.

Beane’s tone and approach with WGR leaves me to infer that he most likely has a personalized “Big Baller Beane” gift somewhere among his office tchotchkes. Easy, boss. If Allen hadn’t defied the odds to become a future HOF’er, you’d have been out of a job years ago.

Did the NHL and ESPN really make Dallas wait until almost 9pm local time to start their game??

You really have to give the Panthers their flowers. They were a superior team tonight. Their PK was huge (great all series). They have championship pedigree and it is impressive.

I saw Gang of Four on their farewell tour, which is also the 45th anniversary of their album "Entertainment." They played the entire album as an opening set, then another set of songs from the second and third albums "Solid Gold" and "Land of the Free." It's weird seeing "punks" who are now collecting pensions but it was still worth seeing. I also spend the last two weekends binging on Coachella streams on YouTube.

I'd prefer the linesman make that call in real time, it wasn't even close. 2 goals in 11 seconds for FLA

I was hoping Tampa could keep the series going to game 7 so they don’t send their best callups back to Syracuse to play against the Amerks.